diff --git a/src/internal/model/database/articlerepository.go b/src/internal/model/database/articlerepository.go
index 777bb36..2d065ed 100644
--- a/src/internal/model/database/articlerepository.go
+++ b/src/internal/model/database/articlerepository.go
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ func (m *ArticleRepository) Search(query string) ([]*model.Article, error) {
 	stmt := `
 		SELECT a.id, a.title, a.sourceurl, a.content, a.publishdate, a.fetchDate
 		FROM articles a JOIN documents d ON a.document_id = d.id
-		WHERE to_tsvector('german', d.content) @@ to_tsquery('german', $1)
-		ORDER BY ts_rank(to_tsvector('german', d.content), to_tsquery('german', $1)) DESC
+		WHERE d.content_tsv @@ to_tsquery('german', $1)
+		ORDER BY ts_rank(d.content_tsv, to_tsquery('german', $1)) DESC
 		LIMIT 10
 	`
 
diff --git a/src/internal/model/database/articleviewmodelrepository copy.go b/src/internal/model/database/articleviewmodelrepository.go
similarity index 94%
rename from src/internal/model/database/articleviewmodelrepository copy.go
rename to src/internal/model/database/articleviewmodelrepository.go
index 384a5aa..6fb687f 100644
--- a/src/internal/model/database/articleviewmodelrepository copy.go	
+++ b/src/internal/model/database/articleviewmodelrepository.go
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ func (m *ArticleViewModelRepository) Search(query string) ([]*model.ArticleViewM
 	stmt := `
         SELECT a.id, a.title, a.sourceUrl, a.publishDate, d.summary
 		FROM articles a JOIN documents d ON a.document_id = d.id
-		WHERE to_tsvector('german', d.content) @@ to_tsquery('german', $1)
-		ORDER BY ts_rank(to_tsvector('german', d.content), to_tsquery('german', $1)) DESC
+		WHERE d.content_tsv @@ to_tsquery('german', $1)
+		ORDER BY ts_rank(d.content_tsv, to_tsquery('german', $1)) DESC
 		LIMIT 10
 	`
 
diff --git a/src/migrations/20250326154214_precomputed_tsvector.sql b/src/migrations/20250326154214_precomputed_tsvector.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4cf5463
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/migrations/20250326154214_precomputed_tsvector.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+-- +goose Up
+-- +goose StatementBegin
+
+
+  -- add the precomputed column
+  ALTER TABLE documents ADD COLUMN content_tsv tsvector;
+  
+  -- populate the new column with the initial data
+  UPDATE documents SET content_tsv = to_tsvector('german', content);
+  
+  -- Step 3: Create a trigger function to update the tsvector column upon insert or update
+  CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION update_tsvector()
+  RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$
+  BEGIN
+      NEW.content_tsv := to_tsvector('german', NEW.content);
+      RETURN NEW;
+  END;
+  $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
+  
+  -- create the trigger on the documents table
+  CREATE TRIGGER documents_tsvector_update
+  BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON documents
+  FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE FUNCTION update_tsvector();
+  
+  -- create an index on the precomputed column for faster searches
+  CREATE INDEX idx_fts_documents ON documents USING GIN(content_tsv);
+
+
+-- +goose StatementEnd
+
+-- +goose Down
+-- +goose StatementBegin
+
+
+  -- drop the trigger that updates the tsvector column
+  DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS documents_tsvector_update ON documents;
+  
+  -- Step 2: Drop the trigger function
+  DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS update_tsvector();
+  
+  -- Step 3: Drop the tsvector column
+  ALTER TABLE documents DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS content_tsv;
+  
+  -- Step 4: Drop the index on the tsvector column
+  DROP INDEX IF EXISTS idx_fts_documents;
+
+
+-- +goose StatementEnd